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Chinese border guards patrol the river banks, rifles slung over the shoulders of their thick green coats.

Patrols Although the government called this a routine move, locals say the troops have now replaced local police in patrolling the river banks, a move equivalent to replacing the rotten washer on the leaky border so that the tap of illegal trade can be shut off at any time.

Others - illegal immigrants who have been forced to live in the mountains for several years - have become bandits.

On the Republican side of the campaign, there's a mixed bag of strengths and weaknesses under the Bush banner.

For instance, while the President has swung to the center on a number of issues, he has in some cases taken a more conservative tone: three successive tax-cut packages, defense revitalization, scrapping the economically devastating (and illegal) steel tariffs imposed early in his administration, thankfully shunning the Kyoto Protocol, banning partial-birth abortion, and defending heterosexual marriage.

Such a comprehensive image bank will no doubt be a boon to Cornell scholarship, yet one shudders to think of the Niagara of Ph.D.

The exalted Fanny Cerrito, Hedy Lamarr, Marie Taglioni, Susan Sontag, or Tamara Toumanova, like a thousand young women noticed on the street, betoken much more than themselves; they are spiritual avatars, muses to the forlorn soul in quest of deliverance from sin, banality, and time.

The band fortified itself for the gig with dinner at Luna Park, where a Flaming Lips album was playing on the music system when they walked in.

Animals too sick or old to stand or walk will be banned from entering the food supply, federal officials said yesterday, in a move that would keep from 150,000 to 200,000 "downer" cattle a year from going to the slaughterhouse.

New regulations will also limit which animal tissues can be turned into food and will ban certain meat industry practices that pose risks to the human food supply.

The ban on downers has long been resisted by the beef industry.

Industry lobbyists have previously said such a ban was too broad and would include not only diseased animals but also cows with broken legs or muscle problems.

Government regulators also said they are strengthening the ban on potentially infectious animal tissues entering the food supply.

It already had a permanent security gate separating the proposed shelter area from the rest of the structure, and a bank of restrooms.

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